Deathwatch: The Emperor's Chosen

The Emperor’s Chosen is a supplement for Deathwatch dedicated to those rare Deathwatch Space Marines who ascend to the status of veteran.

This detailed tome lets players delve into the history of the Jericho Deathwatch and honor the heroic veteran Battle Brothers that have come before them. As part of a veteran Kill-team, Player Characters can assume a Heroic Legacy and combat their foes with tactical precision and martial excellence. Then, the included adventure invites Kill-teams to follow in the footsteps of their predecessors and complete the mission that laid them low!

This is not a complete game. A copy of the Deathwatch Core Rulebook is required to use this supplement.

OK question. Dark Heresy 2.0 is supposed to be nothing like the first edition, incompatible with others and thus, possibly the next itineration for all FF Games products. I have heard tell it is like 5E D&D's playtest (which like so many, I am in on) and that makes me wonder... why throw out a new book for the 'old' set? Don't get me wrong I have buddies with Deathwatch. It is fun to play. It blends great with fixed incarnations of Ascension or Black Crusade. I can't speak for 'only war' which is apparently set up as a more freeform 'start at 500' setup for Imp Guard. I think.

Point is something like this is very welcomed if done right. I kinda hope it has some good chapter creation like 4th edition 40K had for space marines. True it made all the people playing 40K in tournies or aiming to win whine... but those people usually can't appreciate how hilarious 40K is supposed to be, was originally and should be. In a Tabletop something of that nature can work far better and would work wonders if...See more you want to include your favorite CHAPTER APPROVED chapter or want your own.

Looks interesting, but may wait till some of my more deathwatch-focused buddies get the hard copy to borrow before I consider buying it myself, and perhaps wait till I know what they are doing with 2E Dark Heresy.

J. ISeptember 05, 2013 4:28 am UTC

I kinda asked myself the same question when I got the email from DTRPG about this product today. My guess is that DH, RT, DW and BC are all finished products with a product line behind them, and they each have different development teams working on their own line of products. I've bought the Dark Heresy 2.0 Beta, and it is indeed very different from other iterations of the game. Having said that, it doesn't look difficult at all to convert the characters over to the new system. The stats remain the same, the % function is the same. The big changes are that they reduce the number of skills and broaden their scope, and combat damage is done very, very differently. Characters don't have hit points any more: every time your take damage that exceeds your AP+T, you consult a much-expanded hit chart, like the critical hit charts in DH1.0, with the excess damage moving you further down the chart towards more severe wound effects. (Damage and AP are revamped too - Power Armour only grants a modest AP bonus now, but the...See more hardest-hitting multi-meltas have a much reduced Pen value to compensate).

I quite like the new wound system, I've always wanted to see a wound system that resulted in characters suffering specific injuries, rather than the "I have 2 hit points left, I'm still good-to-go" mentality. You never know if your next wound is going to be your last, because you don't have hit-points: you have a punctured lung, broken arm, burns to your legs, and/or worse.

It also explains why a tabletop marine might shrug off 18 lasgun blasts, and finally be 'wounded' by the 19th: that marine has in fact suffered one 'wound' after another, but he had to accumulate quite a few of them before the effects knocked him out of the fight. As opposed to a crybaby IG conscript...

Regardless, I'm looking forward to DH2, but welcome expansions in the meantime.

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